Portland, Oregon · est. 2013
Commercial litigation, not a brochure.
A ten-lawyer boutique representing closely-held businesses, founders and partnerships across the Pacific Northwest. We try cases other firms settle, and we settle ones other firms over-litigate.
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Cases tried to verdict
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Ninth Circuit appeals
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Years in practice
Practice areas
Four practice areas, deliberately
Every matter is staffed by a partner and at most two associates. We decline work outside these four, because a boutique that takes everything is a general practice with a smaller library.
The record · 2013–2026
Twelve years, four jurisdictions
District of Oregon, Western District of Washington, Oregon Circuit Courts and the Ninth Circuit. We appear in all four often enough to know the clerks.
The firm
Ten lawyers. Two partners. One floor.
Margaret Reid and David Marston founded the firm in 2013 after a combined thirty years at larger shops, on one premise: the lawyer who takes the call is the lawyer who tries the case.
A partner is on every matter from intake to verdict.
Margaret Reid
Founding Partner, Litigation
David Marston
Partner, Corporate
Priya Nair
Of Counsel, IP & Trade Secrets
Tomás Aguirre
Senior Associate, Employment
Insights
Four essays a year, not forty posts
Written by the lawyer who argued it. Distributed monthly to clients and subscribers; nothing here is legal advice, and all of it is what we would say on the phone.
Oregon’s 2026 amendments to ORS 653.295: what changed for non-competes and what didn’t
The legislature narrowed the salary threshold and added a disclosure step; the offer-letter timing rule survived untouched.
Why most departed-employee TRO papers fail in the first 72 hours
Vague identification of the secret, no forensic showing of access, and relief drawn too broadly to grant.
The deposition is the trial: a defense of full-prep over outline-prep
Full preparation pays for itself the moment testimony is read to a jury rather than to a mediator.
Founder buyouts: the four clauses that determine whether you litigate
Valuation, drag-along, non-solicit and the indemnification carve-out decide it before anyone calls a lawyer.
Next step
Send us the matter summary.
A partner reads every inquiry. If we are conflicted, or it is not our work, we will tell you that day and name someone who does it.